Row 1
A final selling point for a student’s interpretive analysis that includes key connections from the concrete to the abstract and the student’s overriding purpose tied to the authorial critique and to the focal points of the stem prompt.
Bowtie point
A question asked in Rogerian form to set up the reader to better understand the answer
Socratic question
dramatic tension that captures contentious abstraction issue and that drives speaker’s purpose based on the rhetorical situation and intended impact on the audience: shift perspective, alter expectation
Contextualized reader hook
A community or society that is undesirable or frightening or apocalyptic at one or more levels.
Dystopia
A word that places value/opinion on a subject. Gunther is sadly mistaken in assuming that judging other people by race is not racist. Critical, vital, necessary, should, must, must not, should not, essential, crucial, etc.
Value judgment
Manipulating someone using psychological methods that causes them to question reality and how words relate to one another that defies common sense
Gaslighting
The use of specific language to incite fear or to induce risk aversion to either neutralize or nullify a possible course of action or to control and manipulate the audience.
Rhetorical bullying
One boundary focuses on concerns and the other boundary focuses on implications
Soft and Hard Boundaries
multiple claims, concrete to abstract, multiple pieces of evidence (at least 10), multiple reasons, TSA, Bowtie point.
Layered argument
The way a speaker frames or contextualizes a discussion to achieve a goal/purpose in a disingenuous way to ensure a desired rhetorical or tangible outcome
Mal-framing
Emotionally charged language. Connotative associations or thought policing that re-defines terms based on an insidious agenda.
Weaponized language
The ability to rely on critical thinking, logic, science, and one’s belief system in order to differentiate reality from fiction, logic from gaslighting, and fantasy from science.
Discernment
dash or dashes to force the reader to a complete stop to emphasize an idea.
Em-dash
An adjective that is used to inject an opinion by shifting the way the audience is supposed to perceive the idea: reckless behavior, inappropriate language; shocking decision, radical belief, disappointing result.
Framing adjectives
An imagined state where everything is perfect (equity of outcome). Cannot exist because no human being is pure. A utopia assumes that equity of outcome will create a perfect world, but it ignores human nature and its vices.
Utopia
The student’s main interpretive idea that will act as an interpretive lens to drive his/her primary concerns and abstraction insight
Thematic urgency relevancy driver
a form of definition by negation used to illustrate a division of ideas in order to clarify.
Contrast statements
Saying words that sound like they should mean something intelligent, but the words are so abstract with no concrete quantification ties that the effect is unintelligible
Word salad
Not free speech and not free thought, but indoctrinated and mandated speech and thought that forces you to utter language with new “assigned” meaning based on a political or social agenda with which you disagree or face backlash, ad hominem attacks, and retribution if you fail to virtue signal.
Compelled speech
Discusses what happens if an X factor is not accounted for.
“Without” lead-ins